Canada, it's time to step into history. The plan for July:

Details: Published on Wednesday, 15 April 2015 12:17; Written by editor

Friends,

Over the past few years, a movement has taken root in Canada.

It started with the leadership of Indigenous communities in Alberta, who experience the worst of tar sands pollution, and has expanded everywhere that tar sands pipelines have been proposed (as well as plenty of places far from pipeline routes).

Now, Canada is at a crossroads. We face a choice between expanding the tar sands beyond our climate limit, or committing to a just transition away from fossil fuels and towards a new, clean energy economy. It’s a choice that we think Canada is ready to make. Just last weekend, 25,000 people marched for that new economy in Quebec City -- and this summer we’re going to take on the tar sands across the entire country.

For 3 days at the beginning of July, we'll show that at this moment in history, the people who want change represent a power greater than anything... the tar sands industry can muster.

If that's a vision you want to be part of, sign up to join us this July.

Actions will be led by youth, workers, First Nations and community members from all walks of life. We’re calling our part of this historic effort "We > Tar Sands: Action for Jobs, Justice & the Climate." The action has three key parts:

The first will be youth and students, confronting the political leaders who have sold out our future, targeting MPs and party leaders who have stood with Big Oil instead of us.

The second is community resistance, building off of the incredible victory in Cacouna, Quebec that stopped a key TransCanada export facility and delayed Energy East for two years. We will show Big Oil that there are dozens of Cacounas in every part of Canada: communities that refuse to give in to the tar sands.

The third is epic solidarity, where the growing climate movement will join with workers, First Nations, and other allies to march together through Toronto, the traditional homeland of the Mississauga New Credit First Nation, on the eve of the Pan American Climate Summit -- to demand leadership for jobs, justice, and real climate action towards a new energy future.

Click here to be part of the We > Tar Sands mobilization.

This is an ambitious plan. It’s the kind of thing we’ve only dreamed of for many years, as this movement grew.

But the time is right: more people than ever are standing up to PM Harper’s oil-soaked vision for Canada’s economy, and the tar sands industry is losing millions of dollars as oil prices drop.

We hope that this July will be the moment this movement steps into its power -- and becomes a force to bend the arc of history towards a more just, healthy, and sustainable Canada.

It will take all of us. But together, we can change everything.

In solidarity and hope,

Aurore, Cam, and Clay

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